Nicolas Westbrook

Nicolas Westbrook was a Parliamentarian soldier during the English Civil War. He was opposed to King Charles I of England's unreasonable taxes, and he was trained in the New Model Army, where he observed that blasphemers would have their tongues spiked and that those who called fellow Parliamentarians "Roundheads" would be cashiered on the spot. He went on to fight in the 1645 Battle of Naseby, where the took part in the fight against the Royalist forces at the crest of a key hill, including taking part in fierce melee fighting.